Not Berkeley but Copenhagen

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From: ANDOVER_at_delphi.com
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 18:41:11 -0500 (EST)

It seems to me that the arguments about the nature of Glorantha are a bit more subtle than Berkeleyism, but are rather closer to the Copenhagen theory of quantum reality: that what you see depends upon what questions you ask of reality.

I do not think myself that the Gods are subjective -- I like the idea that they are like the Gods of Tekumel -- so far beyond the perceptions of their worshippers that ANY view of them is necessarily limited.

However, you could no more worship Humakt as the God of love than you could Sarku. But you could find a way to worship him as an intellectual God, frex, by using Death as Separation and Truth as his goal -- Humakt as the God of new intellectual paradigms! (or as the God of revolutionary intellectuals?)

So, I believe that there are lots of new ways to worship a God that have not yet been discovered, but that there are limits to the type of worship or discoveries that can be made about any God. Chalana Arroy and Zorak Zoran will never overlap!

Jim Chapin